Category: Mini Reviews

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield #onceuponariver #dianesetterfield #bookreview #thenavireview

December 24, 2018

Hardcover, 480 pages Published December 4th 2018 by Atria/Emily Bestler Books A dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames. The regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open on an injured stranger. In his arms is the drowned corpse of a little child. Hours later the dead girl stirs, … More Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield #onceuponariver #dianesetterfield #bookreview #thenavireview

Queen Solomon by Tamara Faith Berger #bookreview #thenavireview #queensolomon #tamarafaithberger

November 14, 2018

Paperback, 160 pages Published October 30th 2018 by Coach House Books It’s just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator — until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator’s well-intentioned father has brought her, as a teen, to their home for … More Queen Solomon by Tamara Faith Berger #bookreview #thenavireview #queensolomon #tamarafaithberger

Hardly Children: Stories by Laura Adamczyk #thenavireview #bookreview #shortstories

November 11, 2018

Paperback, 240 pages Expected publication: November 20th 2018 by Fsg Originals An eerie debut collection featuring missing parents, unrequited love, and other uncomfortable moments A man hangs from the ceiling of an art gallery. A woman spells out messages to her sister using her own hair. Children deemed “bad” are stolen from their homes. In Hardly Children, … More Hardly Children: Stories by Laura Adamczyk #thenavireview #bookreview #shortstories

Our House by Louise Candlish #bookreview #newrelease #louisecandlish #thenavireview

August 12, 2018

Hardcover, 416 pages Published August 7th 2018 by Berkley (first published April 5th 2018) On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue.  Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it.  When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers … More Our House by Louise Candlish #bookreview #newrelease #louisecandlish #thenavireview

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

December 11, 2017

Paperback, 248 pages Published October 3rd 2017 by Graywolf Press In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her … More Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Incest by Christine Angot

September 26, 2017

Paperback Expected publication: November 7th 2017 by Archipelago Books (first published November 18th 1999) A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator’s incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis’s forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from … More Incest by Christine Angot